40 Fall Wedding Ideas – Best Wedding Ideas for Fall 2023

The bride has plenty of options for customizing her flowers, so why not give the groom a chance too? Craft an autumnal corsage to match her bouquet with dried fountain grass, cotton, mums, dahlias, or other red and orange perennials. Then, tie them off with a bit of lace for a sweet vintage look.

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If you have simple linens and seats, a great way to add a pop of autumnal color is to decorate the backs of the chairs with flowers. They can even double as favors for the guests to bring home!

In addition to or instead of a wedding cake, macarons are becoming increasingly popular. Not only are they delicious, but the color options make it so easy to evoke the season or coordinate with your wedding colors. Stack them in a pretty tower like this one and your guests can serve themselves!

Want to tie your look together? Coordinate a floral hair piece with your bouquet. We love this mix of moody colors and pops of cotton flowers to give that fall feel. This look easily dresses up a more casual wedding.

If you’re getting married in October and love Halloween, lean into it! A sweet and subtle way of showing your love for all things spooky is adding jack-o’-lantern cookies and skull cake pops to a pumpkin-themed dessert table.

Crisp fall air and the scent of fall leaves make fall a wonderful season for outdoor dining. Whether it’s for the rehearsal dinner or the real deal, set up an outdoor fall tablescape lit by candles and fairy lights. Pumpkins and gourds make for lovely, inexpensive centerpieces.

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What’s the point of having an autumnal wedding if you’re not going to feature the multitude of fall desserts! Have a table devoted to pies, apple crisps, peach tarts, and pecan sandies (which, we might add, are all also gorgeous to look at). Don’t forget to include this delicious pumpkin cheesecake!

Skip the traditional glass vases and place your bouquets inside hollowed-out pumpkins. These look beautiful as table centerpieces or lining the wedding aisle! If you’re going for white-based bouquets, opt for white pumpkins, while traditional fall bouquets will look best in orange gourds.

There are so many ways to customize your wedding arch, and fall provides the perfect color palette if you go for rustic-chic wood. Choose orange, white, red, yellow, and tan hues and drape wedding fabric or lace on one side and flowers on the other.

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Hoping to send out something a bit more colorful than traditional wedding invitations? These cheerful retro invites will serve as great inspiration.

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We love a good welcome sign—and this one is proof that it doesn’t have to be opaque to make a statement.

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While miniature bubbles might make for a cute exit, they’ll likely get tossed aside as soon as the wedding is over. Hot chocolate wedding guests favorites, however, are sure to be put to good use this fall.

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We can’t stop swooning over these mercury wine glasses. Paired with towering candlesticks, it’s one dreamy fall wedding tablescape we won’t soon forget—and, if you recreate it, your guests won’t either.